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“The rivers, wildlife, and landscapes, including the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area and the Colville/Kuukpik River, are invaluable to Alaskans and to people around the world, and this plan weakens or completely removes protections informed by years of study and understanding of the complex Arctic ecosystem. The agency has repeatedly downplayed the role of fossil fuel …
Trump Administration Migratory Birds Treaty Act would remove corporate penalties….How many birds must die? mail? View it in your web browser As an avid birdwatcher, I am livid. Last Friday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intent to finalize a change to the Migratory Birds Treaty Act that would remove corporate penalties for so-called …
Cree Indian saying, “When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money”. “The White House chose the week the United States became the epicenter of a historic pandemic to virtually stop policing big polluters, privatize a bedrock …
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“Trump’s gift to the fossil fuel industry and special interests will silence ordinary Americans while giving polluters a free pass to trash the environment, destroy public lands, and kill wildlife.” Trump accused of ‘disgraceful abdication’ of duty for proposal to neuter landmark environmental law – Alternet.org (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour) Written by …
As the Trump administration assaults the Clean Water Act to allow polluters to save a few dollars at the expense of citizens health…. Rights of Nature Launches in Florida: CELDF Press Release: Florida: Flurry of Rights of River Ballot Initiatives Proposed to Save Drinking Water, Ecosystems Sep 11, 2019 Efforts to add legally enforceable rights …
“Supercilious corporate elites, however, refuse to let such a trifling matter as the will of the people interfere with their sense of entitlement to poison for profit. So they’ve now gotten top Ohio officials to shill for them in a court filing asserting that the state is the “proprietor in trust” of Lake Erie. Thus, …
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